WN/US RUMOR

[skyguy25]

i hope this is a case of very bad reporting..
http://q13.trb.com/news/la-fi-airmerger20f...0,5985440.story

 

[etops1]

well i e-mailed our ceo at usairways about this. and he told me "no comment".

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

LCCers better PRAY with ALL their Might, that they would be Unbelievably LUCKY, to have WN cure them from their NUMEROUS Diseases !!!!!!!!!!!!

(And that is NOT meant as a "slap" at the thousands of hard working LCC folks) !!!!

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

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[gaucho99]

I don't see how this could happen. WN is a point to point carrier and US is a hub and spoke carrier. Plus, a lot of overlap, especially in the west. But, as a US employee, I would welcome it. Maybe this has been in the works for some time. That would explain the reduction of first class seats and amenities without too much concern for any long term negatives.

 

[mrman]

If this happened WWPD (What Would Piney Do?)

 

[Art at ISP]

While I think it is still somewhat farfetched, it could explain alot......especially some of the anti customer moves US has made of late. The rumor that they are going to can domestic F altogether also makes sense now.

While I doubt it will happen, stranger things have happened.......

 

[jimntx]

I keep asking myself...what does LCC have that WN might want? A hub and spoke system to integrate into the most successful aviation business model ever which just happens to be based on point to point flying? A bunch of Airbii when one of the main ways that WN has managed to control costs over the years is with a single fleet type? Integrating employees who have been beaten down and abused by repeated management teams into a highly productive, mostly happy and content workforce?

Come on, people. Help me here. I'm coming up a blank to the question.

 

[ngneer]

I keep asking myself...what does LCC have that WN might want?

Other than, possibly, slots at LGA and DCA, I can't think of a thing. And WN wouldn't go through the torture of merging with LCC just for that. I think this myth is busted!

 

[Be Careful What You Wish For.]

An article courtesy of USA320 on the US board: http://newsok.com/article/3206906/1203566169


"As the Delta/Northwest talks continue, Trippler expects other airlines to try to get in on the conversation and contemplate future merges.
"A merger that would not surprise me down the road would be a Southwest-US Airways merge, and that would be one hell of an airline,â€￾ he said. "You just never know.â€￾"

Why would this not surprise him?

It sure as hell has surprised everyone else!

 

[jimntx]

Well, you may ask...Who the h*ll is Trippler? Why is he an "aviation expert?" He is because he says he is. Terry Trippler is a TRAVEL AGENT. He is one of the travel "experts" on CNN--like the Greenberg guy on the Today show on NBC. You know one of those guys who tells you the Friday before Thanksgiving that it is "probably" too late to book cheap air tickets for the Thanksgiving holiday.

How this makes him competent to comment on mergers and acquisitions escapes me at the moment. Perhaps someone from the studio audience would like to venture a guess?

 

[robbedagain]

Wonder if SWA wants the international routes to compliment their domestice route system. and if SWA were to buy US id say bye bye all of US top mgmt

 

[LD3]

Wonder if SWA wants the international routes to compliment their domestice route system. and if SWA were to buy US id say bye bye all of US top mgmt

That would be a good thing.....

 

[Twicebaked]

I would not wish a US merger on ANYBODY!!!!!

Southwest is a great airline and even with the US management gone it would still destroy SW.

God help us if this is true.

 

[rsv4ever]

Wonder if SWA wants the international routes to compliment their domestice route system. and if SWA were to buy US id say bye bye all of US top mgmt

i WANT someone to buy us just for the simple fact that TEMPE will be gone! i think everyone at US (atleast on the east, maybe west too) feels the same way.